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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
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"Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature."
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"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
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"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
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"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad."
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"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind."
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"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
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"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land."
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"Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?"
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"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
Language
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
Athens
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."
Cities
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
Biography
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
Love
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."
Past
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
History
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
God
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
History
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
Writing
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